Dr. Alvin Danenberg, or Dr. Dan, as his patients like to call him, has been a periodontist (a gum specialist) for over four decades. He is also a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and a Certified Primal Blueprint Expert. He divides his career into two periods: before and after the laser coupled with the dynamics of ancestral nutrition. The laser-based LANAP® (Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure) protocol and the importance of ancestral nutrition, he believes, are revolutionizing the treatment of gum disease. LANAP® is an acronym for Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure and requires no scalpels or sutures.

Dr. Danenbergs G.U.M. Protocol based on evolutionary nutrition, assists patients in eliminating unhealthy lifestyle routines and poor food choices by replacing them with healthy ones. The body needs nutrient-dense foods and healthy gut bacteria to create amazing results. Poor nutrition and unhealthy gut bacteria lead to various medical and dental diseases and imbalances.

Dr. Dan’s passion for periodontics in general—and for the LANAP protocol combined with his emphasis on evolutionary nutrition in particular—is palpable. He gives seminars regarding the cutting-edge concepts of nutrition and laser treatment to the general public and is happy to spread the word among his fellow professionals. He has been a member of many dental and periodontal organizations, including the American Academy of Periodontology and the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. Currently he enjoys Life Membership in the American Dental Association.

Dr. Alvin Danenberg received his dental degree from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1972, and his Specialty Certificate in Periodontics from the University of Maryland, School of Graduate Dentistry in 1974. The following two years he was Chief of Periodontics at Charleston Air Force Base, and later had periodontal practices in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. Along with his active practice, he wrote and published from January 1990 through December 2001 “The Personal Report” newsletter, which was mailed quarterly to every periodontist in the United States. He joined Beaufort Family Dentistry in South Carolina in 2009 and now sees patients at Bluffton Center for Dentistry.

Dr. Danenberg received advanced training in evolutionary nutrition from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as well as The Center for Mind-Body Medicine. He received his CFMP (Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner) designation from Functional Medicine University in June 2014, and the Primal Blueprint Expert Certification in September 2014. In July 2015, Dr. Danenberg created, wrote, and recorded the Integrative Periodontal Module for the College of Integrative Medicine’s 300-hour certified program titled, Certified Integrative Healthcare PractitionerProgram, which commenced October 2015.

His new book, “Hunger for Health”, will be published in the near future.

He also provides a unique opportunity for anyone to discuss their nutrition and periodontal questions with him live online at DrDanenberg.com.

He and his wife Sue have been married since 1969 and have two children and three grandchildren.

Highlights:

Dr Danenberg teaches us what the true irritant and cause of gum disease is and how to prevent it through a nutrient dense anti inflammatory diet and lifestyle.

He shares his health scare that occurred 7 years ago and how that changed the course of his and his wife’s health after that event.

Brushing and flossing is NOT the most important thing to do to take care of your teeth! Dr Danenberg shares his secrets to getting a healthy mouth, and the importance of gut health in relation to mouth health and overall health. (That’s alot of health…)

Find out what Dr Dan’s wife brushes her teeth with every night. Bet you can’t guess!

Find out if oil pulling is good for you, or just pulling your leg. (sorry, couldn’t resist.) And HEAPS of other lifestyle changing advice.

Top Lifestyle Tips:

Ask the question, If you knew a train was coming, would you get off the track?

Dr Greg Emerson­ is a proud father, medical specialist, permaculture farmer, sustainable living advocate and wilderness survival enthusiast. He is interviewed regularly on America’s most popular health television programme because of his dedication to finding the underlying root cause of illnesses. When not working in his clinic he is tending to his garden, caring for his animals, roaming the wilderness or practicing his survival skills.

He is a consultant in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, a senior specialist in Emergency Medicine and in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr Emerson played professional basketball for five years. He is a certified PADI dive instructor. On a personal note he is an enthusiastic skier and wilderness explorer. He has trained in wilderness survival skills with ex Australian Special Forces Personnel and the Apache in Arizona. He teaches energy biohacking techniques, resilience training, wild food foraging , traditional food preparation and survival skills in the mountains and lakes around Queenstown and Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand.

He lives on his 50 acre organic permaculture farm deep in the Gold Coast hinterland. He is passionate about sustainability, self­ sufficiency, neo­-aboriginal life ways, wilderness survival and wild food foraging. He breeds Senepol cattle, Huacaya alpacas and Boer goats.

We discuss Acute medicine and natural medicine.

“You will never prescribe your way out of a poor lifestyle.”

We talk about heart health, epigenetics, and the causes of heart disease.

Top Three Lifestyle Tips:

Change your identity to the behavior you want to install in your life.

Understand your life purpose and make sure it is larger than yourself.

Learn to adapt old world lifestyles to today’s modern lifestyle.

Favorite Exercise:

Natural movements, climbing, throwing, lifting, kettlebells.

Favorite quote:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat – Theodore Roosevelt